The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word BETRAYED
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More clues leading to the result BETRAYED
- Awful bread — yet sold out
- Wager Ed, stocking fish, is sold out
- Was unfaithful to Elizabeth to begin with at Derby race
- Shopped and risked money, ready to fail
- Unintentionally showed live TV, only half ready to be broadcast
- Risky enterprise — two chaps duped
- As Gove did with Boris? Take a punt on a flash education
- Trumpeted about stranger getting deceived
- Venture’s made ready, revealed!
- Sounded like an ass when drinking in Paris, and got cheated
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The straight part
We know that "sold out" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case sold out = betrayed.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does BETRAYED mean?
BETRAYED verb- To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly.
- To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive.
- To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.
- To disclose or indicate, for example something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.
- To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen; to lead into error or sin.
- To lead astray; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.